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  • Windows 10win10disk01

    Windows 10 VM 99 percent disk utilization performance issue

    In troubleshooting a recent performance issue in my home lab environment on a couple of Windows 10 VMs that I had running, I had a peculiar issue that arose. ย In looking at task manager when troubleshooting severe slowdowns in the…

  • Hyper-Vrepreceive05

    Setup Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V VM Replication

    Setting up Hyper-V replication allows you to replicate a virtual machine from one Hyper-V environment over to another. ย The nice things about replication in the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor world is that there is no appliance to have to setup or…

  • Networkinggns3esxi02

    Setup GNS3 VM VMware ESXi

    GNS3 has definitely matured as a product and offers tremendous functionality especially if you look at the cross vendor platform support that it offers. ย I definitely prefer the interface of GNS3 over other products such as VIRL. ย VIRL is maturing…

  • Azureazure05

    Setup Azure Linux Public Key Authentication

    In working with Linux VMs in Azure, there are a couple of ways to setup authentication. ย One being standard password authentication, and the other is Public Key Autentication. ย With Public Key Authentication, a key pair is generated. ย The public key…

  • SQLsqlloginerror01

    SQL Server local SQL authentication error logged in locally

    Guys, so I have run into a really weird situation with a development SQL Server local SQL authentication error logged in locally. ย Local SQL authentication succeeds if you login remotely via SQL Server Management Studio. ย However, using SSMS, the login…

  • Webnginx_ps01

    Installing a LEMP server with WordPress and Google Pagespeed

    If you are looking to host a webserver and want a really reliable, stable platform that has excellent performance, a LEMP server using the latest flavor of Ubuntu – 14.04 along with Nginx and Google Pagespeed is hard to beat.…

  • SoftwareURC_04

    Bare Metal Restore VM using AppAssure

    Using AppAssure, there are a couple of different ways that a VM can potentially be restored. ย You can use both theย Restoreย method or theย Exportย process within the software to successfully bare metal restore a VMware VM back to the environment. ย The first…